The mining industry, which uses significant quantities of water, is one of the main pillars of the Chilean economy, with copper exports accounting for one-third of government revenue.
The 63,000 vehicles covered in the investigation were registered in states that used significant quantities of road salt, but the agency said it would review vehicles in other states as well.
Therefore, bioengineering structures made of willow cuttings can be used to trap significant quantities of sediment from the first year onwards and efficiently restore eroded marly gullies under a Mediterranean mountainous climate.
Plants take weeks to grow, but yeastlike micro-organisms replicating in vats can be used to churn out significant quantities of carbohydrates, sugars, proteins and fats in a matter of hours.
Canadian reactors, unlike the models used in this country, produce significant quantities of tritium as a byproduct of electricity production.
At the same time, the same spacecraft could also be used to transport to bound Earth orbits significant quantities of material through judicious use of orbital dynamics and passively safe aero-capture manoeuvres or low energy ballistic capture.
The commercial synthesis of adipic acid uses petroleum-derived benzene and releases significant quantities of greenhouse gases.
The use of chromatographic techniques to obtain significant quantities of enantiomerically pure drug intermediates is well established.
The growing use of biomass as fuel leaves significant quantities of solid residue (ash) with qualities that are different from those of coal combustion ash.
However, in contrast to the microglial cells used in this study, those cells produced significant quantities of VEGF-A, suggesting that different sources and phenotypes of leukocytes may affect angiogenic responses via different mechanisms.
